I'd never pay for an alpha or a beta of a game. It's absolutely inexcusable that anyone in the video game industry asks people to pay for it, and it's even more unbelievable that people actually pay money to test someone's game for them. Companies used to ask people to beta test their games for them for free as a favor and a courtesy. Players did it because it was early access to a game, find some bugs, and maybe some inside shit that would help them when the game went live. I'm not paying four times the retail cost of the game for a cloth map and an obscure plaque placed somewhere in a dungeon.